Monthly Archives: June 2010

World Cup Day 14: Group E Recap And Best XI

Japan have impressed me. I had a pretty low opinion of their chances at this tournament, but they advanced out of their group with two victories after they defeated Denmark 3-1. In the other final game, Netherlands topped the group

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World Cup Day 14: Group F Recap And Best XI

This group had been dull but ended with an exciting match between Italy and Slovakia. Slovakia pulled off the upset 3-2 that eliminated the defending champions from the tournament. In the other match, New Zealand and Paraguay played to a

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World Cup: Day 15 Preview

The final day of the group stages is tomorrow and there are some intriguing matches especially in Group H where goal difference could play a big role in deciding who advances. Here is my preview for the final day of

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World Cup Day 13: Group D Recap and Best XI

At least one African team will advance to the knockout stage. Ghana lost to Germany but did finish second as Australia defeated Serbia 2-1. Germany looked to be in some danger heading into the final game but with their victory

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World Cup Day 13: Group C Recap and Best XI

Group C finished up with an exciting set of games. England defeated Slovenia 1-0 to advance, while the United States defeated Algeria with a late Landon Donovan winner to not only advance but to also win the group. It was

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United States 1, Algeria 0: Recap and Player Ratings

This was an incredible game. I won’t go into it that much in terms of a recap as the story of the game is posted all over the place and I have my live commentary as well. The game marks

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World Cup: Day 14 Preview

Here we are heading into the third day of simultaneous games as Groups E and F will be completed. Group E has Netherlands on top, but an intriguing game between Denmark and Japan will determine the second team to advance

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United States-Algeria Commentary

The final day of Group C is here. I will be giving live commentary of the United States game, but will also be paying attention to the Slovenia-England match as well. So feel free to leave a comment. United States-Algeria

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World Cup Day 12: Group B Recap and Best XI

Group B had an exciting finish. Nigeria and South Korea battled to a 2-2 draw and at the end Nigeria needed only one goal to advance and failed to advance after missing some easy chances. In the other game, Greece

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World Cup Day 12: Group A Recap and Best XI

These posts are a bit late as the servers were down for quite a while yesterday. But they appear to be back up. Group A finished up today and it had a moment of intrigue as South Africa put pressure

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